The fusiform face area (FFA, meaning spindle-shaped face area) is a part of the human visual system (while also activated in people blind from birth)...

in this area and it is sometimes referred to as the fusiform face area (FFA) for that reason. It is important to note that while certain areas of the brain...

fusiform gyrus, also known as the lateral occipitotemporal gyrus, is part of the temporal lobe and occipital lobe in Brodmann area 37. The fusiform gyrus...

aneurysm Fusiform bacteria (spindled rods, that is, fusiform bacilli), such as the Fusobacteriota Fusiform cell (biology) Fusiform face area, a part of...

stimuli. The face is the feature which best distinguishes a person. Specialized regions of the human brain, such as the fusiform face area (FFA), enable...

whereas the fusiform face area (FFA) responds mostly strongly to faces and face-like stimuli (Kanwisher et al., 1997). The parahippocampal place area (PPA)...

the cortex) and then finding an area well known for its modularity such as the fusiform face area. This landmark area then serves to orient the researcher...

Brodmann area 37, or BA37, is part of the temporal cortex in the human brain. It contains the fusiform gyrus which in turn contains the fusiform face area, an...

STS rather than the fusiform face area. Other studies, however, have found that stimulation of the posterior and mid-fusiform face selective regions in...

2.5%. The brain area usually associated with prosopagnosia is the fusiform gyrus, which activates specifically in response to faces. The functionality...

body area (EBA), which perceives bodies in relation body parts, and the fusiform face area (FFA), which is involved in the perception of faces. Marius...

gyrus. The OFA comprises a network of brain regions including the fusiform face area (FFA) and posterior superior temporal sulcus (STS) which support facial...

parts, akin in its respective domain to the fusiform face area, involved in the perception of human faces. The EBA was identified in 2001 by the team...

areas suspected of being involved in the processing of faces and emotional information. The fusiform face area, part of the fusiform gyrus is an area...

radial gratings or hands. It is also believed that in the fusiform face area, images of faces excite the cortex more than other images. This property was...

Faces are normally processed in the special face-selective regions of the brain, such as the fusiform face area. However, processing inverted faces involves...

misfiring in the fusiform face area of the brain, which recognizes faces, and in the amygdalae, which associate emotions to a recognized face. The neural disconnection...

memorizing faces than non-faces. There are several areas of the brain associated with the highly specialized form of memory for faces. The fusiform face area (FFA)...

their ability to recognize faces and objects, and that the fusiform face area is not strictly used for recognizing human faces. Gauthier, Tarr (1997), p...

form area (VWFA) is a functional region of the left fusiform gyrus and surrounding cortex (right-hand side being part of the fusiform face area) that...

Kanwisher, Nancy (1997-06-01). "The Fusiform Face Area: A Module in Human Extrastriate Cortex Specialized for Face Perception" (PDF). The Journal of Neuroscience...

and may be involved in prosocial behavior. The fusiform face area (FFA) is strongly associated with face processing and perceptual expertise. The FFA has...

the fusiform face area (FFA), a nearby cortical region that responds strongly whenever faces are viewed, and that is believed to be important for face recognition...

Prosopagnosia (inability to recognize faces) is due to damage of the fusiform face area (FFA). An area in the fusiform gyrus of the temporal lobe that has...

appropriate context. Fusiform Face Area The Fusiform face area (FFA) is an area that has been studied to be highly active when faces are being attended...

as faces. A 2009 magnetoencephalography study found that objects perceived as faces evoke an early (165 ms) activation of the fusiform face area at a...

usually occurs as a result of the fusiform face area—which is the part of the human brain responsible for seeing faces—mistakenly interpreting an object...

science behind this is poorly understood but may be related to the fusiform face area part of the brain. The skill is recognised and employed among the...

high-functioning autism had reduced activity in the fusiform face area when viewing pictures of faces.[verification needed] ASD could be linked to mitochondrial...

forced group. The Fusiform Face area is an area typically unilaterally, much like the language areas, and localized on the right fusiform gyrus. However...